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Except that you violate the EULA. I wouldn't recommend this in a commercial environment.
by i386 14y ago
Except that you violate the EULA. I wouldn't recommend this in a commercial environment.
- sneak 14y agoNot if the VM host is on Apple-branded HW. Also, you'd have to get caught. It's not customer-facing.
- stusmall 14y ago"You'd have to get caught" isn't a way to do business. Plus it won't fly for those of us who work in giant megacorps with license audits.
- sneak 14y agoIf you're running xcode CI at a giant megacorp, you might want to rethink your life decisions.
- i386 14y agoThats unfair to say. Release Engineering is super critical to running great software companies and is a strict technical discipline of its own.
- i386 14y agoAnd if your company has dreams of becoming a larger successful company, you are going to have to pull it out anyway. Its cheaper in the long run just to buy a Mac Mini or an older MacBook. I'd even argue its cheaper time-wise just to get the hardware instead of dealing with an unstable build server if you go the hackintosh route.
- slurgfest 14y agoWhy doesn't Apple make it possible to use its development environment (required for developing products to run on its hardware) in a VM? This seems like a user-unfriendly decision.
- i386 14y agoIts business model is making a sweet profit on premium hardware.